{"title":"Laura Bernstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eLAURA BERNSTEIN is a Jewish scholar active in interfaith ministry and the author of \u003cem\u003eHealing the Jewish-Christian Rift: Growing Beyond Our Wounded History\u003c\/em\u003e, co-written with Ron Miller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernstein spent five years in rabbinical studies at the Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf in Skokie, Illinois, and has published articles and essays on spiritual practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she’s not writing, Bernstein leads interfaith groups in sacred chant and meditation. Her work traces the Jewish-Christian schism to its scriptural roots in the Gospel of Matthew and explores pathways toward interfaith reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Bernstein’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"healing-the-jewish-christian-rift","title":"Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift: Growing Beyond Our Wounded History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own people?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being willing to confront and transform deep-rooted prejudices in ourselves. It requires the courage to re-envision absolutely everything we tend to cherish and protect, and to relinquish our entrenched vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of 'I, me and mine.' This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to approach others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential step in our human evolution.\"\u003cbr\u003e—from the Invitation to the Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudaism and Christianity have had a volatile relationship in their two-thousand-year history. Anger, rivalry, insensitivity, bloodshed and murder have marred the special connection these two Abrahamic faiths share. In the last several decades, scholars, activists, laypeople and clergy have attempted to expose and eliminate the struggles between Jews and Christians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collaborative effort brings together the voices of Christian scholar Ron Miller and Jewish scholar Laura Bernstein to further explore the roots of anti-Semitism in Christian faith and scripture. In a probing interfaith dialogue, Miller and Bernstein trace the Jewish-Christian schism to its very source in the first book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew. Illuminating the often misunderstood context of Matthew’s gospel—a persecuted Christian minority writing some sixty years after Jesus’s death—this examination of a foundational Christian text discerns the ways in which the Jewishness of Jesus was forgotten and Jews and Judaism became Christianity’s foil. More important, it takes a renewed look at Matthew with contemporary retellings that present a new and better future of conciliation and compassion between the two faith traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/159473139X\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781594731396\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Laura Bernstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43238198313176,"sku":"9781594731396","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43238198345944,"sku":"9781683361091","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781594731396_FC_mockup_v2_1740147285_7e1dce98-ae2a-45a4-93e1-e6587f66d608.jpg?v=1791034056"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-laura-bernstein.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}